In this day and age of virtual communication with its echo chambers and filter bubbles, political propaganda, the construction and transmission of myths, whitewashing, etc., artists raise questions regarding our methods to transmit knowledge, and re-examine the tools we have to communicate with one another. This exhibition therefore departs from ideas related to Knowledge Commons, the philosophy pursuing a society in which information can be collectively owned, shared and managed as opposed to the privatisation of knowledge. How can collective knowledge generate collective consciousness?
(Simons/ Van Bos)

29.7.17

Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence

>> Fruit Efficiency <<

August 26 - September 23

Fruit Efficiency is the first Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence exhibition in North America. An OJAI information and research bureau will function as a fusion center for the organisation's site-specific reconnaissance and psycho cartography. A selection of our postal correspondence- curated around the themes of architecture, finance and terrorism will be on display. The organisation's second annual report will be published and made available for public scrutiny. A bureaucratic performance will take place at the inauguration of the exhibition and will involve: administration as seduction, transport infrastructure as music and softly spoken words for management.

The opening is on 26.08.2017 at RO2 Art1501 South Ervay Street, Dallas, TX 75215Further Information

16.10.16

>>LOW HANGING FRUIT <<

22.10.2016 - 25.01.2017

LOW HANGING FRUIT is the first exhibition by the Office
for Joint Administrative Intelligence (Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly). The
exhibition explores bureaucratic and administrative strategies as modes of
cultural production. Results and analyse from the recent OJAI policy
and instincts opinion poll will be presented as well as plans for a world head-quarters designed by ScAle Architects (Benedetta
Alessi and Maurizio Scalera). The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence
will present the organisations first annual general report as well as a critical text by Julia Zinnbauer. There will be noise
performance by Dexia Defunct (Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly) in
collaboration with Frank Lohmeyer.

More sceptical is the work of Gary Farrelly and Dirk Krecker who interrogate the aesthetics of modernity: Farrelly subverts the representation of modernist buildings by hand-embroidering them with delicate patterns while Krecker has punched holes into white sheets of paper with a typewriter. The results of these seemingly strenuous activities are fragile textures reminiscent of complex urban structures and at the same time of digital information overload. (Der Standard 13/08/2016)

24.5.16

Stefan
Banz, Ella de Burca, Gary Farrelly, David Lunney, Léa Mayer and Pope L
will will square up to the theme of boxing, not to splay it lifelessly
across a canvas but to vigorously recatalise the pugilistic narrative. The
artist will become boxer and questions of body, ego, society, medium and
representation will be brought into focus with adrenal clarity amid a series of
fractious blows. The exhibition is the curatorial initiative of Anthony
Colclough.

13.3.16

Our second performance as Dexia Defunct takes place at Bei Ruth bar in Neukölln on March 25th. The latest installment of the DD collaboration is a soundscape made up of office machinery, administrative processes and transport infrastructure. The recordings are combined with spoken word content: collaboratively researched financial data, self-hypnosis and language tutorial. The performance is taking place as part of:

Dexia Defunct had it's inaugural concert Musique Concrete for the age of communication and control at the Bokal Royale in Brussels last June. Dexia Defunct is a part of the OJAI Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence, a research collaboration focused on economic modeling, post-war architecture and personal inventory systems. OJAI activity manifests in co-authored bureaucracy, sound performance, mail-art and photography.

Gary Farrely and Chris Dreier have officially launched a new research and co-production initiative- the Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence (OJAI). The objectives of the combined effort are original research focused on economic modeling, post-war architecture and personal inventory systems. The new entity manifests in co-authored bureaucracy, performance, mail-art and photography. The first OJAI summit was held in Berlin earlier this month and was commemorated with a limited edition of hand-fabricated decorative trays. To celebrate the successful conclusion of the summit the trays were generously dispatched as mail-art to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit and the National Center for Contemporary Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The remaining examplaire has been retained in the OJAI archive and will be part of an OJAI exhibition at Grölle Pass Projects in Wuppertal this coming autumn.

19.11.15

Policy Documents is Gary Farrelly’s first solo exhibition in New York. Research material comprised of typed lists, diagrams and self-generated flotsam institute an atmosphere of bureaucracy and office. Self-representation through administrative systems is the central proposition. Materials employed include: carbon paper, spray paint, stencils, a typewriter and office stationary. The curator is Suzi Teo.

Museum Quality is a minuscule space, in the setting of a mall, hidden behind a taxicab dispatcher. It is an unlikely venue for showcasing conceptual art and design. In marked contrast to the cookie-cutter white cubes, Museum Quality is an attempt to design a forum that harkens back to ad hoc artist run spaces, with minimal red tape; an experimental lab to redefine the language of institution and space.Gary FarrellyPolicy DocumentsOn view Nov 21 - Dec 21, 2015Museum Quality59 Pearl Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 info@museumqualitynyc.com

19.10.15

A specially recorded noise composition by Dexia Defunct (Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly) will be broadcast in the small rural city of LaSalle, Illinois. The public broadcast is the headline event of a spoken word/ noise art exhibition happening at White Trash Gallery. The composition is made up of recordings of domestic and office machinery as well as sounds of transport infrastructure, toy weapons and site-specific distortion loops. The piece also features an information-heavy voiceover. Limited edition/ stamped and approved cassettes have been dispatched from Brussels (via Berlin) to LaSalle and will be on display and available for purchase.

Recorded sounds and noises, a modular machine and a technocratic voice form the Dexia Defunct experience. Founded this year by artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly as part of a new collaboration including mail art, photography and lists. Dexia Defunct had it's first concert with Burqamachines at Bokal Royal in Brussels this June. www.soundcloud.com/dexia-defunct.

26.1.15

OISIN BYRNE : GARY FARRELLY

>>GLUE <<

24.01.2015 - 15.03.2015

Two qualities unite the work. The first is a manual fixation; a polymorphic perversity. Both artists indulge in a pleasure in making, and in machines of production. This is tempered with a tendency towards humour, both linguistic and visual – of labour and of taste. There is an atmosphere of crap glamour and DIY decadence: an unpacking of taste and its tyranny.

25.4.14

In the photograph Gary Farrelly photograph by oisin Byrne, screen shot from the collaborative film project Glue.

In the photograph Violet Ogden photograph by oisin Byrne, screen shot from the collaborative film project Glue.

Glue is a collaborative film project being undertaken by myself and Oisin Byrne. It is a much longer and more ambitious undertaking then the Radical Science film collaborations which proceed it The writing and recording of the film is already well underway and is being generated incrementally in various locations (London, Brussels, Rhodes and Pickering Forest). It is a long-term project due for completion in the third quarter of 2017.

13.3.14

A selection of postal works on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Republika Srpska (2013).

I have been dispatching a series of advanced
Mail Artworks to MSURSThe Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska since
January 2013. The correspondence artworks have been departing my studio at monthly intervals without envelope. I unilaterally instigated the process
and the initial dispatches were not solicited by MSURS. As the content accumulated in Republika Srpska the curatorial staff at the museum have become active
collaborators in the process: documenting and archiving every piece upon
arrival.

In February 2014 a selection
the of works were shown as part of a major group exhibition at the museum entitled Iz/usetnosti (which translates as Extraordinaries). Since mid 2014 the collection has been part of the permanent public collection the museum.

24.8.13

GOING POSTAL - an exhibition of diverse postal art production, processes and materials. Including works by:

Michael Corris

Gary Farrelly

John Pomara

Sam Schonzeit

Opening Reception 7-10 pm Friday August 16

Art Talk / Pot Luck 7-9 pm Sunday August 18

Gallery Hours Wed-Sat 12-6 pm and by appointment

The show will close on September 14

RE gallery

1717 Gould Street

Dallas tx 75215

972-974-3004

info@regallerystudio.com

www.regallerystudio.com

The series of postcards by Michael Corris are all adaptations of prior bodies of work made during

the 1980s. As postcards, they intend to exploit a more public model for making and disseminating of art. While they index other projects that were originally exhibited in the form of typographic book works, commissioned political posters, or informational materials related to activist campaigns, they also stand on their own as tokens of another kind of exchange.

Gary Farrelly’s works are mailed without envelope in the standard post, thus exposed to

bureaucratic and procedural alteration / molestation. Whole exhibitions are incrementally transmitted in this manner. Large works are disassembled into or created as constituent parts for unitary dispatch. Farrelly has been sending the works to RE gallery since early 2013 from his home base of Pickering Forest, Ireland. Several works are also collaborations with Sam Schonzeit where they mailed works back and forth, altering each others along the way. Gary's work is courtesy of Ro2 Art.

John Pomara’s ready made mailer paintings are not really paintings but studies in color for a' larger painting series titled “96 Tears”. The mailer bar codes were similar in composition to the larger paintings pixelated stencils. By precisely utilizing the mailers as dip sticks, Pomara was offered visual solutions on a smaller less invested scale before taking on the larger sized works. Part happy accident, part rigorous study, these reused mailer paintings are quirky small works that hover between abstraction and the everyday. John's work is courtesy of Barry Whistler Gallery.

Sam Schonzeit’s works include a mail art subscription program where he enlists patrons to receive an original postal art work through the mail each month. This program was in particular response to the fact that Sam did not have a gallery to show his work at the time. Therefore he created his own art production, distribution and income system through the postal service. A small catalog documenting the history of his mail art subscription program was also produced for the Going Postal show. Sam also creates small abstract mask and spray paintings made in the size of postcards. These small works on paper are sold in select places, and while they may be used as postcards to be mailed, they are also beautiful little gems to be individually collected.

I would like to thank Marina Guinness, Oisin Byrne, Lindsey and Patrick Collins, Violet Ogden, Camilla Monroe and RO2 Art for their generosity, support and assistance at all stages in the execution of this project. It is sincerely and profoundly appreciated.

1.8.12

Image of the artist's studio in summer 2012, photograph by Oisin Byrne.

The pieces are currently being created at the Kunstbureau (artist's studio) at Pickering Forest in Ireland. The completed works will be exhibited in a show called Terminal Compositions at RO2 Art's project space in downtown Dallas this November.

31.7.12

1.3.12

A series of small and medium artworks by will be shown as part of an exhibition entitled Control Tower at Tehran's Parkingallery Projects. The artworks are mail art correspondence dispatched to the exhibition's curator Amirali Ghasemi as part of an ongoing bilateral dialogue. The mail art pieces will be installed alongside five technocratic drawings created especially for the exhibition.